Jaunts in Mind Space

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Glitch Samples

This set of samples was created from a drumbeat I had made in Reason. The "glitchy" sound came from putting the beat through effects in Audacity. The effects used were redux, beat repeat, and a bandpass filter.http://neuralsmith.googlepages.com/glitch.zip

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Quadrupedal Walking Robot

This is a picture of a quadrupedal walking robot I built a couple summers ago. Its purpose was to go over simple obstacles and hopefully climb stairs. However, because it was a power hog and the servos did not have a good torque rating it needed to be tethered to a power supply. Once I realized that it would cost me several hundred dollars worth of high quality servos and rechargeable batteries to have it perform as desired the project was dropped. The one video I have of it walking was taken before the knee joints were completely added. Later I realized that the knee joints could not bear the weight of the bot and so they were never fully implemented. The link below is for the video of the bot.http://neuralsmith.googlepages.com/quad_walk.WMV

Parallel Port Breakout Board

Here are some pictures of a parallel port breakout board I am making. The board was made in anticipation of building a data aquisition board that will interface to my parallel port.Blue wires = groundYellow wires = controlGreen wires = statusRed wires = data

This was taken at home. I gave it a plexi base so that the wiring would not be exposed to the "elements" of my desk.

Friday, March 03, 2006

My Parents Art

Thought I would show off my parents art work.

Dad:

Temptations & Necessities, 70" x 51", 1979, acrylic on canvas

"Headley's art is an art of convergence and displacement; flaunting its idiosyncracies and boisterous in its unpredictable profusion. He seems neither content with nor contained by the singular incident, preferring instead the restless intercourse of a turbulent aesthetic. He is likewise unwilling to accept or comply with the incestuous and labyrinthine principles of art historical evolution on the contemporary scene. Headley's unselfconscious transgressions may well be a catalyst to the enrichment and expansion of American painting. "

"Weather dominates landscape in the most seductive manner. It is nature at its most abstract--most violent, most serene, most mysterious, most prosaic--and it mirrors the changing emotional landscape within me. My painting practice is to work with watery pigments, I pour sweep, brush, drip, and fling layers of paint like clouds scudding across the sky. I coax pools of paint into translucent veils of color. Anchoring these ephemeral elements are gestural tree limbs, horizontal water marks, stripes and blocks of color."